2008/6/12 Harold A. Giménez Ch. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > In migrating an application from sql server to Postgres, I created a ruby > script that extracts csv files from sql server (from a windows box), then > SCPs them into a directory (/home/ruby_process) on the server running > Postgres (a Fedora core 8) and finally runs the Postgres COPY command for > each of the csv files. > > When the script runs the COPY commnand, I get the following error (for the > genders table): > > ERROR C42501 M could not open file "/home/ruby_process/genders.csv" for > reading: Permission denied Fcopy.c L1694 RCopyFrom (RuntimeError) >
> My question is, what are the set of permissions required to perform a > postgres copy? user postgres has to have access for read. regards Pavel Stehule > > I've set the permissions on the directory so that the postgres group owns > the directory and has read and execute permissions, as follows: > drwxrwxr-x 3 ruby_process postgres > > I have also tried moving the files to /tmp and performing the copy from > there, unsuccesfuly. > > Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks, > -Harold > > -- Sent via pgsql-sql mailing list (pgsql-sql@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-sql
